Method of taking an orchestra conductor for cinematographic exhibition



E. WOLFF. METHOD OF TAKING AN OB CHESTRA CONDUCTOR FOR CiNEMKTOGRAPHIG EXHIBITION.

' APPLICATION men I. us. .920.

1,422,909, Patented July 18, 1922.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGEN YVOLFF, OF TEMPELHOF, NEAR BERLIN, GERMANY.

METHOD OF TAKING- AN ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR FOR CINEMATOGRAPHIC EXHIBI- TION.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGEN VVOLFF, working manager, a citizen of the German Republic, residing at Nos. 527-28 Oberlandstrasse, Tempelhof, near Berlin, Germany, have inrented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Taking an Orchestra Conductor for Cinematographic EX- hibition, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the cinematographic taking of an orchestra conductor for effecting the method described in the Letters Patent No. 1286883. In accordance with such patent, the movements of an orchestra conductor are exhibited by two rows of cinematographic representations, one row which shows the back representations of the conductor being exhibited to the musicians, and the other row, showing front representations of him, exhibited to the audience.

According to my present invention, the front and back representations of the conductor are produced on one film by means of three reflectors or mirrors, one turned toward the conductors back, another towards his front, and the third reflector so disposed between the two as to reflect one series of representations into the taking ap paratus and permit the other series to be received by such apparatus without these two series of images interfering with one another.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1922. Serial No. 366,171.

This invention is diagrammatically illus trated, by way of example, in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. l of a general arrangement of the several reflectors in their relation to a taking appara tus, Fig. 2 an elevation of such arrangement.

The front representations of the conductor who is shown at a are by a reflector 0 reflected into the taking apparatus (2' directly. The back representations are transmitted by a reflector 7) to a reflector d and thence received by the apparatus 0. The reflector (Z is so disposed between the reflectors 7) and c that its lower edge shall separate the so produced two series of images from one another.

I claim:

In an arrangement for taking an orchestra conductor for cinematographic exhibition, the combination with a taking apparatus of a reflector turned towards the conductors front to reflect front representations of him into the said taking apparatus, a reflector turned towards the conductors back, a third reflector turned towards the second said reflector to transmit the back representations to the apparatus, the lower edge of such third reflector separating the two series of images from one another, substantially as set fort In testimony whereof I afliX my signature.

EUGEN WOLF F.

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